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Utsa Bose is a DPhil candidate in History at Somerville College, University of Oxford. His research on The Sociocultural and Medical History of the Bubonic Plague in Calcutta, between 1890 and 1920, is supervised by Professor Mark Harrison, Professor at the Faculty of History, and Co-Director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities.
Utsa’s research interests include the history of epidemics, pandemics and endemic diseases in colonial South Asia. Among his other areas of interest are literary translation, philology and the relationship between faith, religion, health and medicine.
Utsa was also the Graduate Teaching Assistant for the MSt in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation (CLCT) at the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre in 2023-2024. He enjoys translating and writing fiction, and his translations have appeared in journals such as Asymptote, while his original fiction has been published by Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters.
Utsa’s translation of sixteen short stories from the Bengali language, Folk Tales from Meghalaya, was published in 2024 by Puffin/ Penguin Random House.